vurtX - Short Circuit 4 (Dischord Disco)

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Arranged by:

vurtX Adept

Member profile:

vurtx

Original SID:

Listen at DeepSID

Original composed by:

Martin Galway

Also check out:

2 other remixes of Short Circuit

Duration:

5:26

Released:

24/05/2009

All-Time charts position:

2917

Score:

71%

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Hi, I always thought this strange little SiD subtune was weird yet brilliant, the hook stayed with me for years. (Martin Galway's interpretation of David Shire's movie original was of course superior.)

The short poem I am a Mechanical Man is psychopath Charles Manson, I've used this without his permission so if Charlie listens to C64 Remixes in his padded cell I'm in serious trouble!

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Dan shouts:

What starts out promising turns into a horrid mess which is not helped by a poor choice in instruments or samples from the film

YogibearRenoise shouts:

Hmm! An intriguing and chaotic RMX! Like it!

Master Baator shouts:

Very different than other remixes here, and that is normally refreshing. However it is more odd than brilliant due to the many disharmonies and sometimes false chords. I am looking forward to your next composition, but keep it more streamlined

prowler shouts:

Really too confusing to be enjoyable...

infamous shouts:

Im not to sure why this is getting low voted for sounding chaotic, have you heard the original sid? Or even the movie version for that matter as it was a cover by galway.. This is a brilliant remake of it

condor shouts:

Really really weird. Either you hate it, either you love it. I'm in the middle.

apple shouts:

Not bad at all. And I just watched Short Circuit movie :P

LaLa shouts:

At first it's not much different than the original movie score, but there are lots of other things here to keep me interested. The instrumentation could be more polished, but it's a very respectable effort, nevertheless.

Raffox shouts:

NAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAaaaaa

dokmatik shouts:

Pays great tribute to the original.

wyz shouts:

Very progressive remix, I like it

AdSalusNonAptus shouts:

This is so freaking great!

wobbler shouts:

Rad (and red)

Review by NecroPolo

27/08/2009

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I am sure that this track is the boldest remix on this site.

Idea, technical competence and sound all serve one and only purpose: capturing the nature of chaos, without compromises. It remains true to itself and it makes it one of the finest underground tracks around here as it goes a totally opposite direction from the vast majority of remixes that, hidden or obvious, admitted or not, are made to be liked. These end up running the same loops again and again as everyone did before, uncountable times.

But mind that: the predictable and monotonous is slow decay and death - the experimental and chaotic is fertile and evolving.